Peter Hamill - Forever

Pros: Engrossing story and New York City references of landmarks, people and history.
Cons: May not be as interesting to a person who doesn't know NYC or its history.

I had trouble rating this book. I absolutely enjoyed it for its graphic descriptions of New York over the last 250 years done in an engrossing novel form. My problem reflects the feeling that Forever could have been even better had Hamill written ...

Pros: Great concept
Cons: Terrible execution

Pete Hamill knows New York. As editor of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News and frequent contributor to the New York Times and The New Yorker, there's little doubt his passion for and knowledge of...

Pros: Vivid historical setting, jam-packed with authentic squalor.
Cons: It's a 600-page love letter to NYC disguised as a novel.

Would you accept the gift of immortality, if it meant you had to stay in the same city for the rest of your supernaturally long life? I’ll tell you right now that I would do no such thing. An eternity in Reno, NV would be like hell with free...

Pros: A wonderful story told within the contest of 250 years of New York City history.
Cons: It may be uninteresting to those not from New York.

Young Cormac O'Connor witnesses the violent deaths of both his parents while growing up in mid 1700's Ireland coincidentally at the hands of the same member of the priveleged class. Within the context of that historical period, and having been educated ...